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Though the movie follows roughly the same plot, the darkly gleaming heart of it has undergone major surgery. In a postscript to his play, Dürrenmatt wrote: "Nothing could harm this comedy with a tragic end more than heavy seriousness." Director Bernhard Wicki falls into that error, compounding it with a gimmicky screenplay. The eunuchs, the coffin, and much of the mordant wit are omitted, as is the wooden leg. The sex angle is fattened up with a juicy subplot. And to make the slow corrosion of conscience more graphic, the good burghers of Guellen struggle against...
...police. "I admit we've had some violent deaths-but outside the law, in dignity." Agnese no longer matters. She is beaten, jeered at, and finally led to the altar as if she were a schoolgirl dragged to stage center of a savage burlesque. In a grim postscript, the camera cuts from the stricken Agnese to mock the words "Honor and Family" on a nobleman's tomb...
...that their own expression of the existential questions may be quite as limited as was St. Paul's. Wilder, who is a brother of Playwright Thornton, criticizes Fuchs's emphasis on faith as obedience, ignoring the New Testament concern for the content of faith. In a chatty postscript, Fuchs answers that his colleagues are aware of the cultural limitations of existentialism; but they still believe it is the most useful starting point for their Biblical reinterpretation...
...Mojave Desert with burns on the left side of his face and neck, probably caused by ignition of the oxygen in his mask. The scheduled later assault on the Russian-held world altitude record from ground take-off (113,890 ft.) was scrubbed-and a colleague added an understated postscript to the incident: "The colonel stayed with the plane a little longer than personal safety would have dictated...
...postscript to my yesterday's letter about your review of my Henry James And The Jacobites, I now perceive that I have done Mr. Max Byrd a gross injustice...